Shirt



(No Model.)

J. L. KNIGHT.

SHIRT.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i JOHN L. KNIGHT, OF NEW ALEXANDER, OHIO.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,594, dated December 11, 1894.

Application led March 27, 1894.-. Serial No. 505,313. (No specimens.)

To all whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. KNIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Alexander, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Shirt, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a shirt having starched portions which will not be affected by the perspiration of the wearer; and this end I attain by a peculiar arrangement ot a sheet of material, impervious to the perspiration, between the starched portions and the wearer, whereby the perspiration is prevented from going beyond the said sheet and permeating the starched portions. In this peculiar arrangement of the said sheet lies my invention, and I will now describe it in detail and nally embody it in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l represents a sectional view of a shirt-bosom having my improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the protecting sheet, showing it detached from the remainder of the shirt. Fig. 4 is a sectional view showing the arrangement of the neck-band. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the arrangement of the parts.

The reference numeral 1 indicates the body of the shirt, and 2 the bosom, both of which may be of any preferred construction, and which bosom is connected to the body of the shirt by means of the auxiliary or reinforce sections 3.

4 indicates the sheet of impervious material which I prefer to interpose between the bosom 2 and body l, and which is of such a size that it will extend entirely under the bosom and beyond the sides thereof. The edges of the impervious sheet 4 extend well under the sections 3, and are stitched by the lines of stitching 9 to the body of the shirt, the said edges having no connection with the sections 3 at its edges. By this construction the wearer will not rumple the bosom 2 by` his movements, but the bosom and the edges of sheet 4 will be allowed independent movement.

The sheet 4 is secured in position and to `the body 1 by lines of stitching 5, which extend around the edges of the bosom and pass through the shirt-body and sections 3. Thus the sheet 4 is connected to the bosom 2, so as to the wearer, so as to cut oft the perspiration and prevent it from finding its way to the V band 6. Y,

The strip 7 may be secured by any suitable stitching, and I prefer to turn the edges under and stitch them together by the lines 8.

By this construction it will be seen that the perspiration of the wearer is prevented from finding its way to the bosom of the shirt, and thereby taking the stiening out of it. In addition to this, the bosom is braced, and thus its rigidity is secured.

The material of which the sheet 4 may be composed may be rubber or oilcloth. I regard both as equally well adapted to the purpose, with a probable preference to the rubber cloth.

y Having described my invention, what I claim is- A shirt having a body-portion, a sheet of material impervious to moisture, arranged on the outside thereof and secured thereto at its edges, reinforce sections secured to the body and extending inwardly and over the edges of the `impervious material, and a bosom arranged over the impervious sheet and extending to the inner edges of the reinforce sections and secured thereto by lines of stitching, said stitching extending through the bosom, reinforce sections and body, whereby the bosom is braced and kept from the perspiration of the wearer, and whereby the edges of the impervious sheet are allowed free movement with the body of theshirt, substanp JOHN L. KNIGHT.

Witnesses: E. H. RUFF,

M. G. GREENWOOD; 

